Project Search: Statewide Teacher Enhancement in Connecticut

该项目为康涅狄格州所有136所公立高中的两名教师提供144小时的内容准备、培训和支持，以在全州范围内将环境领域研究的严格新课程制度化。通过暑期教师学院、全年研讨会以及与专业科学家的定期会议，272名教师将学习新的实地考察教学法教学技术；增加他们在水生生态学、环境化学和科学报告方面的知识；学习使用新的计算机系统和环境监测设备；并帮助学生制作正式报告，供公共和私营部门机构使用，以汇编有关康涅狄格州水质的研究数据。该项目由地区科学博物馆的教师教育工作者和CT环境保护部共同管理，并利用公共和私营部门的专业知识来提高教师在新的应用环境领域研究课程中的技能。项目搜索将教师与专业科学家联系起来；这对全州高中科学教育的长期课程改革和系统改进具有重要意义。

9353526 Gruner This project provides two teachers in all 136 Connecticut public high schools with 144 hours of content preparation, training, and support for a statewide institutionalization of a rigorous new curriculum in environmental field research. Through summertime Teacher Institutes, year-round workshops, and regular meetings with professional scientists, 272 teachers will learn new instructional techniques for fieldwork pedagogy; increase their knowledge of aquatic ecology, environmental chemistry, and scientific reporting; learn to use new computer systems and environmental monitoring equipment; and help students produce formal reports that are used by public and private sector agencies to compile research data about water quality in Connecticut. The project is jointly managed by teacher educators at a regional science museum and the CT Department of Environmental Protection, and uses public and private sector expertise to enhance teacher skills in a new applied environmental field research curriculum. Project Search links teachers with professional scientists; it has important implications for long-term curricular change and the systemic improvement of statewide high school science education.